How to Use open ocean in a Sentence

open ocean

noun
  • And she's gone on more than 30 open ocean dives.
    — Janelle Griffith, PEOPLE, 9 Dec. 2025
  • And the open ocean seas will be in the 3-to-4 foot range.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Spend time at Keel Beach, where waves roll in from open ocean.
    — David Dickstein, Oc Register, 13 May 2026
  • Their study only looked at the open ocean, not coastal waters.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 19 June 2025
  • But that doesn’t mean sperm whales want to restrict themselves to the open ocean.
    — Emma Marris, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2023
  • This story begins not in the open ocean, but in a dockyard.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • So many whales foraged in the bay that the mariners didn’t need to venture to the open ocean.
    — Douglas Main, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
  • What followed was a desperate sweep across miles of open ocean.
    — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 8 May 2026
  • Amanda trailed off into the sunset in the open ocean.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 26 June 2026
  • Krill are tiny crustaceans resembling shrimp that live in the open ocean.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Not only that, but the debris carried more coastal species than open ocean species.
    — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Or the deep blue of the open ocean, where tuna flash like silver and seabirds wheel overhead.
    — Jennifer Raynor, Space.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Swim, fly, roll and chomp your way to the open ocean in a bid for freedom and to reunite friends once again.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Frank Mundus fought a 17-footer, the largest known to man, on the open ocean.
    — Pat Smith, Outdoor Life, 24 July 2025
  • Females feed in the open ocean, where there’s enough food to meet their needs with fewer predators.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 22 Feb. 2024
  • This included shooting on the open ocean.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025
  • But how does a cell floating in the vast open ocean keep its community close by?
    — Katherine Bourzac, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • This would be especially useful in the open ocean, where there are few places to hide.
    — Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Does the idea of migration through thousands of miles of open ocean make your stomach drop?
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • What works in the fjords doesn't necessarily scale to the open ocean.
    — Ryan Craggs, Travel + Leisure, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Along the way, visitors are treated to views of marshlands, rolling dunes, and the open ocean.
    — Abby Price, Southern Living, 27 Apr. 2026
  • These places may not be cut off from the world by the open ocean, but their barriers are no less impassable.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Traveling across the open ocean for days at a time requires a different type of ship.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Mothers nurse their pups for only a month before mating and heading out to the open ocean.
    — Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2025
  • When the ice melts, and the sun’s rays can reach the dark open ocean, their energy is absorbed by the planet.
    — Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
  • In the open ocean, hurricane winds push water toward the center of the storm.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The strait is the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The open ocean is vast, dynamic, and unpredictable.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 19 Jan. 2026
  • In the open ocean, sharks’ rough scales make perfect scratching posts for fish to remove parasites.
    — Michael Heithaus, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Pack ice, a type of free-floating ice that drifts on the open ocean, surrounds Antarctica.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2025

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